India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
Chandigarh, Feb 28: The general public squabbling within the Congress intensified on Sunday with the celebration”s Punjab unit chief Sunil Jakhar hitting out at ”G-23” dissident leaders and asking them to shun the “politics of opportunism”.
In an announcement, the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president referred to remarks of celebration leaders Kapil Sibal, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Raj Babbar and Anand Sharma, made at a public occasion in Jammu on Saturday, and stated these opposing reforms within the organisation had been doing an awesome disservice not solely to the celebration but in addition to the nation.
“Come and be part of me within the protest which might be a refresher course for you all in elevating the voice for the folks we serve distant from the comfy environs of Rajya Sabha galleries,” Jakhar stated, referring to the Punjab Congress” deliberate march to “gherao the Punjab Raj Bhavan towards the spiralling costs of important commodities”. He stated some senior celebration leaders had been “indulging in politics of alternatives” that too at a time when each Congress employee is combating the grave battle to avoid wasting and protect the concept of India “below assault from oppressive central regime”.
Jakhar stated the nation wants the Congress to interact in politics of battle to boost the voice of the frequent man on the road and urged these leaders to take up problems with the general public.
The leaders are a part of the dissident group which was given the moniker of G-23 after it wrote to celebration chief Sonia Gandhi final 12 months demanding an organisational overhaul and inner elections for all posts within the Congress.
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Coming collectively on one stage, a number of of those leaders had on Saturday stated that the Congress has weakened they usually have taken it upon themselves to strengthen it.
Reacting to it, the celebration had stated that these leaders ought to be part of the Congress” marketing campaign in poll-bound states and strengthen it, as an alternative of changing into lively towards one another.
“These elevating their voice towards reforms in an organisation which gave them essentially the most potent platform to evolve as leaders, they’re right now are doing an awesome disservice not solely to the celebration but in addition to the nation,” Jakhar stated.
Disagreeing with Raj Babbar”s reported “Hum hello Congress hain” remark, Jakhar underlined the “Congress celebration is older than you and me” and its core philosophy has constantly been of public service solely.
“Little doubt, you might be Congress,” Jakhar stated, including that such feedback don’t behove a senior chief like Babbar.
On Ghulam Nabi Azad”s assertion that he has retired from Rajya Sabha and never from lively politics, Jakhar stated that “retiring from the higher home by no means means retiring from politics. Relatively, politics has begun now”.
Referring to Sibal”s assertion about the necessity to additional strengthen the celebration, the Punjab Congress chief invited him to hitch him in working “for the folks on the streets to make the celebration and the nation stronger”.
That is the time to be with the folks, he stated and expressed the hope that each one these leaders would now come ahead for the “politics of battle” additionally.